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• [New] NASA's fiscal year 2027 budget request proposes $110 million for Mars Future Missions, with the program intended to support lower-cost science missions and hosted instruments that also prepare for human exploration. New Space Economy
• [New] Social change leaders are increasingly concerned about AI's risks, including the loss of human connection when it matters most. Stanford Social Innovation Review
• Devastating flash floods in Nepal are a human tragedy and a dire warning of the heightened risks of rapidly melting ice and glacier collapse in an overheated world. Greenpeace International
• NASA has placed its future of humans on the lunar surface on a single commercial partnership, with SpaceX - a mighty risk considering it represents the future of US human spaceflight. DebateUS
• OpenAI is developing its first custom inference chip, Jalapeno, set for deployment by year-end, and says it will build humanoid robots. Forbes
• Looking ahead, OpenAI plans new devices, a custom chip, and humanoid robots, aiming for a proactive, general-purpose AI subscription. Forbes
• 2026 will be an era of true collaboration between technology and people, with AI amplifying human expertise rather than replacing it. BuildEZ
• Bill Gates has called for human-reserved jobs in certain sectors to prevent AI replacing them, and expressed concern that governments are not prepared for the impact the technology will have. The Guardian
• Both model developers and cyber defenders more broadly will have to prepare for AI-enabled attackers that work faster, at a larger scale, and with better coordination than human attackers. BBC News
• Radiology's ranks are in fact growing steadily, with the number of practitioners expected to expand by 26% or more over the next three decades, and the big challenge is optimizing collaboration between humans and computers. American Enterprise Institute - AEI
• Recent incidents involving frontier AI models carrying out unsanctioned actions, such as OpenAI revealing its model had hacked European AI service Hugging Face and exhibiting human-like deceptive behaviour on the open internet have highlighted the risks posed by AI capabilities. UKAuthority

Last updated: 20 September 2026